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  • Why I Oppose Race-Consciousness

    Source: The Findings Substack
    by Paul Rosenberg

    “Race-consciousness is not something that belongs in the minds of children; rather than being a virtue, it’s far more of a poison. I want children to be entirely separated from and ignorant of racial issues. Rather, they should simply see people, with their pigmentation being an accidental triviality. Race-consciousness robs that from them, and I think it’s tragic.” (04/17/26)

    https://thefindings.substack.com/p/why-i-oppose-race-consciousness

  • After three years of fighting, Sudan’s civil war is only getting worse

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Alex Thurston

    “This month marks the third anniversary of the war in Sudan. Estimates of the death toll range from 150,000 to 400,000 or more; 2025 was, according to the United Nations’ internal estimates, a particularly deadly year for civilians. The humanitarian impacts are even broader: the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs calculates that, as of April 2026, nearly two-thirds of Sudan’s 46.8 million people need humanitarian assistance.” 904/17/26)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/sudan-war-anniversary/

  • The Causes of Unemployment: What’s Missing

    Source: Foundation for Economic Education
    by Walter Block

    “Everyone is now concerned about the unemployment rate, it would appear. The scribes are busily scribbling as to the possible causes of this economic debilitation. Their list is long, creative, and clever. One explanation is that the quit rate has plummeted. People are sticking around in jobs they would have left in rosier markets. Well, yes, if this replacement source of new job openings is decreasing, that could well account for fewer new employment slots opening up. But this is a two-way street. Presumably, people are not downing tools for fear that new appointments will not be open to them, at least not on better terms, overall, than they now enjoy. So, it is likely that the unemployment rate is at least partially a cause of this phenomenon, not only a result. Further, this is a sign of economic health, rather than disarray.” (04/17/26)

    https://fee.org/articles/the-causes-of-unemployment-whats-missing/

  • Marty Makary: The FDA’s Quiet Blockade on Safer Nicotine

    Source: Brownstone Institute
    by Roger Bate

    “There are moments in public health when the path forward is unusually clear, when the evidence aligns with behavior, when risks are well understood, and when policy has a genuine opportunity to reduce harm at scale. This should be one of those moments. Non-combustible nicotine products — vapes, heated tobacco, and especially nicotine pouches — are widely understood to be far less harmful than smoking, a point I and many others have covered repeatedly, and one that no longer sits at the frontier of scientific debate. … One might expect regulators to respond accordingly, adjusting policy to reflect both the risk gradient and the changed behavioral landscape, but that has not happened. Instead, the system has stalled, quietly but decisively, with approvals for new products slowing to a near standstill.” (04/17/26)

    https://brownstone.org/articles/marty-makary-the-fdas-quiet-blockade-on-safer-nicotine/

  • Thinking in Crisis

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Claudia Franziska Brühwiler

    “New technology is changing how human beings learn. But preserving both humanity and democracy means we have to cling to traditional ways of knowing.” (04/17/26)

    https://lawliberty.org/thinking-in-crisis/

  • Anarchist Notes on the Theory of Money, Credit, and Capital. Part I: Theory

    Source: Center for a Stateless Society
    by Kevin Carson

    “Part I of this two-part paper will examine a number of loosely related and considerably overlapping conceptual issues concerning the nature of money and credit: metallism vs. chartalism, money theories of credit vs. credit theories of money, and advance vs. synchronization economics. They all hinge, in one way or another, on the question of whether money and credit are ‘real’ material entities, on the one hand, that must be in some way ‘saved’ or ‘accumulated’ before they can be ‘lent’ or ‘invested,’ or simply units of account for allocating resources and tracking the balance of exchange of material goods, on the other. That is, is money a store of value — a commodity with intrinsic value in its own right — and does credit require a stock of past savings to be lent against?” (04/17/26)

    https://c4ss.org/content/61109

  • Mises on “Rightly Understood Interests”

    Source: Free Association
    by Sheldon Richman

    “Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) still has much to teach us if we want a society in which individuals freely pursue their happiness. The economist and social philosopher lit the path to that widely shared goal in his magnum opus, Human Action (1949). especially chapter 24, section three, ‘The Harmony of the ‘Rightly Understood’ Interests.’ The title alone is refreshing, considering how preoccupied political philosophy, economics, and history have been with mankind’s supposedly fated and endless conflict — racial, national, or class — and power struggles. That alone should draw us to the work of a thinker who understood that this emphatically is not man’s destiny.” (04/17/26)

    https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-mises-on-rightly-understood

  • The Government Store to Nowhere

    Source: Common Sense
    by Paul Jacob

    “New York City Mayor Commie Mamdani is putting into action, sort of, his plan to introduce government-run grocery stores and bring down grocery prices. Renting a Brooklyn storefront may cost anywhere between $60,000 to $600,000 a year depending on location and square footage. And there are other costs. Investors profit when they’re right about the opportunity and revenue exceeds costs. This means that they must satisfy customers. Or … taxpayers can fund everything regardless of success or failure.” (04/17/26)

    https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/04/17/the-government-store-to-nowhere/

  • NATO Allies Adopt Evasive Policies on US War in Iran

    Source: Antiwar.com
    by Ted Galen Carpenter

    “Trump administration officials are discovering that a daunting number of longstanding U.S. allies and security clients are adopting hedging policies or even openly opposing Washington’s decision to wage war against Iran. That sobering reality has become even clearer over the past week than it was during the earlier stages of the armed conflict. On April 12, the president called upon NATO members to join U.S. naval forces in blockading Iranian ports. The proposed move was in response to Tehran’s continuing efforts to selectively close the vital Strait of Hormuz to foreign shipping. However, most of Washington’s alliance partners refused to join the retaliatory blockade.” (04/17/26)

    https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2026/04/16/nato-allies-adopt-evasive-policies-on-us-war-in-iran/

  • AI Abundance Won’t End Inflation, Nor Make Money Meaningless

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Peter C Earle

    “Elon Musk claims AI-driven growth could fund UBI transfers without inflation. But relative prices — not just totals — still drive economic allocation.” (04/17/26)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/ai-abundance-wont-end-inflation-nor-make-money-meaningless/

  • Most Young Australians Successfully Evade the Country’s Social Media Ban

    Source: Reason
    by JD Tuccille

    “Among the great many bogeymen of the current moment is social media, which stands accused of making young people anxious and unhappy. Whatever the merits of those charges — and they’re debatable — politicians have predictably tried to address concerns by applying the blunt instrument of coercive law to kids’ online activities rather than simply let parents help their children make better choices. The experience in Australia now shows the subjects of the law have, once again, proven cleverer than law enforcers.” (04/17/26)

    https://reason.com/2026/04/17/most-young-australians-successfully-evade-the-countrys-social-media-ban/

  • Be defiant

    Source: Kent’s Hooligan Libertarian Blog
    by Kent McManigal

    “Beyond mere non-compliance, there is defiance. Defiance is more ‘in your face’ than non-compliance, and is more dangerous, but you can be smart about it. Practice non-compliance until you get comfortable dipping into defiance. Storming a government building only works if there’s a big enough crowd, and they don’t simply go home to be hunted down later. It’s the same with refusing to be taxed, refusing to have illegal gun rules imposed on you, and rejecting all licenses and permits. There’s safety in numbers. … There’s a tipping point at which defiance is less dangerous because of the number of people participating. It’s not here yet. Until then, you can at least work toward reaching that tipping point.” (04/17/26)

    https://kentmcmanigal.blogspot.com/2026/04/be-defiant.html

  • No, Virginia, Delaware’s Congressional District Isn’t Gerrymandered

    Source: Desultory Scribblings
    by Tyler Harris

    “Delaware and Vermont only have one Congressional representative each, elected statewide. It is literally impossible to gerrymander a statewide district. There is no process of drawing boundary lines; the state’s borders are the boundary lines. This in itself should be enough to completely discredit the argument being put forth. Anyone claiming a nefarious Democratic Congressional gerrymander of Delaware should take a big step back. If, after all, they have been fed and subsequently repeated a lie so moronic on its face, then what subtler lies are they also being fed and repeating?” (04/17/26)

    https://tylerjohnharris.substack.com/p/no-virginia-delawares-congressional

  • Is It Time to Impeach Trump?

    Source: The American Conservative
    by Bruce Fein

    “Congress should not idle like Nero while the Constitution is in flames. Members should be inspired by the 56 signatories to the Declaration of Independence who signed their death warrants to secure unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness promoted by government by consent of the governed. Trump must be impeached and removed from office immediately before it is too late.” (04/17/26)

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-it-time-to-impeach-trump/